Charlotte messenger. [volume] (Charlotte, Mecklenburg Co., N.C.) 1882-18??, 1887-05-07

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of fire until it comes to it, The most Of Us
prefer the old way. But whether out Of
natural disintegration or cremation we shall
| get that luminous, buoyant, gladstone, trans
cendent, magnificent, inexplicable structure
| called the resurrection BODY, Won will have
it, will have it. Isay to youto-dav. as Par
said to Agrippa; "Why should it be thought
ching incredible with you, that God should
| raise the deadf' The far-llp cloud. higher
than the hawk flies, higher than the eagle
flies; what is it made of. Drops OF water IRON
the Hudson, other drops from the East River.
other drops from stagnant pool out on New.
ark hats-up yonder there, embodied in
cloud. and the sun kindles it. If God can make
such lustrous cloud out of water drops, many
OF them soiled and impure and fetched from
miles away, can He not transport the frag-
ments of a human body from the earth and
out OF them build radiant bodya Cannot
TOD, who owns all the material out of which
bones and muscle and flesh are made, set
them up again if they have fallenl If
| manufacturer of telescopes drop telescope
on the floor and it breaks, can he not
mend it again so you can see through
itl And if God drops tie human eye
into the dust, the eye which he originally
fashioned, can He not restore It'll Ave II
the manufacturer of the telescope by a
change of the glass and change of focus can
make better glass than that which was
originally constructed and actually improve
it, do you not think the fashioner Of the
human eye may improve its sight and
multiply the natural eve by the thousandfold
additional forces Of the resurrection eyel
"Why should it be thought with you an in
credible thing that God should raise the
deadF' Things all around us suggest it. Out
of what grew all these flowers. Out of the
mould and the earth. Resurrectedl Resur.
rectedl The radiant butterfly, where
did it come fromi The loathsoms
1,-% oh NIak
the tempest with its wing, where
did it come froml A senss.ess shell.
Near Be rgerac, France, in a Celtic tomb
under block were found flower seed that
had been buried two thousand years. The
explorer took the flower seed and planted
it, and it came up: it bloomed in bluebell and
heliotrope. Two thousand years ago buried,
yet resurrected. A traveller says he found in
a mummy pit in Egypt garden peas that had
b9en buried there three thousand years ago;
He brought them out and on the 4th of june
1874, he planted them and in thirty days
they sprang up. Buried three thousand
years, vet resurrected 'eWhy should it be
thought a thing incredible with you that God
should raise the dead 2
Where did all this silk come from-the silk
that adorns your persons and your homes.
In the hollow of a staff Greek missionary
brought from China to Europe the progenl-
tors of those worms that now supply the silk
hammered host and the luxurious articles
of commercial emporium blazing out
from the silk worms. And who shall be
surprised if out of this insignificant earthly
body, this Insignificant earthly life. Om
bodies unfold into something worthy of the
coming eternities. Put silver into diluted
nitro and it dissolves. Is the silver gone for
ever. No. Put in some pieces of copper and
the silver reappearS. If one force dISSolveS
another force organizes.
why should it be thought thing incredi-
BILE with you that God should raise the deadt'
The insects flew and the worms crawled last
autumn feebler and feebler, and then stopped.
They have taken no food. they want none,
They lay dormant and insensible, hut soon
the south wind will blow the resurrection
trumpet, and the air ana the earth will
be full of them. Do you not think
that God can do as much for our bodies as He
does for the wasps and the spiders and the
snails! This morning at 4;30 O'Clock there was
resurrection. Out of the night, the dav. In
few weeks there will be resurrection in all
our gardens. Why not some day a resurrec-
ton amid all the graves!
Ever and anon there are instances of men
and women entranced.
A trance is death followed by resurrection
after n few days total suspension of mental
power and voluntary action. Rev. William
Tenuent, great evangelist of the last gen.
Grafton, of whom DIR. Archibald Alexander,
man far from being sentimental, wrote in
most eulogistic terms-Rev. William Ten
nent seemed to die. His spirit departed
People came in day after tlsv and said:
He is dead, he is dead But the soul that
fed returned, and William Tennent lived to
write out the experiences of what he had seen
while his soul was gone. II may he found
some time that what is called suspended ami
nation or comatose state is brief death. giving
the soul an excursion into the next world
from Job,
few hours granted from the conflict
of life to which it must return. Do not this
waking up of men from trance. and this wax
ing up of insects from winter lifelessnesS, and
this waking mp of grains buried three thou
sand years ago, make II easier for You
after the vacation of the grave shall
rouse and rally, though there he three
thousand years between our last breath and
the sounding of the archangelic reveilei
Psychologists tell us that while the most of
our bodies are built with such wonderful
economy that we can spare nothing, and the
loss OF finger is a Underwent and the
injury of a toe-joint makes us lame,
still that We have two or three use
less physical apparati, and no anatomist
or Psychologist has never been able to tell
what they are for. They are no doubt the
foundation of the resurrection body, worth
nothing to us in this state, to be indispensa-
bly, valuable in the next state The Jewish
rabbins had only a hint Of this sug-
gestion when they said that in the
human frame there was small bone which
was to be the basis of the resurrection
body. Perhaps that may have been a de
fusion. But this thing is certain, the
Christian scientists of our day have found out
that there are two or three superHuities Of
body that are something gloriously sugges-
tive of another state.
| called at my friends house one summer
day. found the yard all piled up with the
rubbish of carpenter and masons work The
door was off. The plumbers had torn up the
floor: The roof was being lifted in
cupola. All the pictures were gone, and
the paper-hangers were doing their work.
All the modern improvements were being
introduced into that dwelling. There was
not a room in the house fit to live in at that
time, although month before when visited
that house everything was so beautiful l
could not have suggested an Improvement
My friend had gone with his family to
the Holy Land, expecting to eame
back at the end of six months.
when the building was to be done. And
oh, what was his joy when at the end of six
months, he returned and the old house was
enlarged and improved and glorifiedl That
is your body. 1t looks well nOw-all the
rooms filed with health, and we could hardly
make asuggestion. But after awhile your soul
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